Launceston house prices

Launceston house prices are built from 10,979 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £160,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +22.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -12.4%.

HM Land Registry10,979 sales1,243 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Launceston house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Launceston is £260,000 in 2022; the lowest is £49,250 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £50,000 to £227,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £111,024, so the real change over the whole record is +104.9% — about +2.34% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +22.3% in cash against -12.4% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Launceston values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Launceston is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 2,466 certificates cover Launceston, and their median floor area is 88 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +15.1%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

1,019 of the sales on record are leasehold and 9,960 freehold — 9.3% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £90,000 and the median freehold sale £170,000 — a gap of +88.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — 0.0%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 739 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cornwall, 37.4% of 321,040 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 14.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cornwall at £1,005 a month as of Jun 2026 — £692 for a one-bedroom home and £1,082 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £160,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.54% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of PL15, 2 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 1 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 83.5 times quieter.

Against the 570,305 residents the 2021 census counted in Cornwall, that is 0.00 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 570,305 residents in Cornwall across 250,533 households. 67.4% of those households own their home and 32.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

17 state and independent schools have a PL15 postcode: 16 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Launceston sits above that national figure — +1.6%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,863 per square metre, across 1,243 of the 10,979 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £8,000 to £1,650,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Launceston sits in Cornwall, in the South West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cornwall at 8.6 times median local earnings of £33,889 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Launceston

• Kensey Valley Meadow349 sales
• Robin Drive227 sales
• Dunheved Road203 sales
• Snowdrop Crescent168 sales
• Tor View157 sales
• Tavistock Road156 sales
• Chestnut Drive123 sales
• St Johns Road123 sales
• Western Road111 sales
• St Thomas Road103 sales
• St Stephens Hill100 sales
• Trelinnoe Gardens99 sales
• Long Field Road88 sales
• Bluebell Way84 sales
• Kit Hill View83 sales
• Honeysuckle Gardens78 sales
• Market Street75 sales
• Bury Close73 sales
• Race Hill73 sales
• Roydon Road69 sales
• Compass West68 sales
• Prouts Way68 sales
• Hendra Vale66 sales
• Mayna Parc65 sales
• Hawks Tor Drive63 sales
• Broad Park61 sales
• Westgate Mews61 sales
• Castle Meadows60 sales
• Church Lea60 sales
• Bounsalls Lane57 sales
• Highfield Park Road57 sales
• St Thomas Hill53 sales
• Woburn Road53 sales
• Fair Field Park51 sales
• Blackbird Crescent50 sales
• Dennis Gardens50 sales
• Penn Kernow50 sales
• Priory Park Road50 sales
• Exeter Street48 sales
• Foxglove Close48 sales
• Prouts Court48 sales
• Well Meadow48 sales
• Serpells Meadow47 sales
• Trecarrell46 sales
• Woodvale Terrace45 sales
• Meadowside44 sales
• Tiny Meadows44 sales
• Barley Rise43 sales
• Edwards Road43 sales
• Gendalls Way43 sales
• Haye Common Drive42 sales
• St Marys Road42 sales
• Treburley Close42 sales
• Windmill Hill42 sales
• Long Meadow41 sales
• Penhole Drive41 sales
• Duke Street38 sales
• Ridgegrove Lane38 sales
• Hillpark37 sales
• Mayne Close37 sales

Postcode districts covering Launceston

• PL15£160,000 median

What is the average house price in Launceston?

The median price paid in Launceston across every sale on the register is £160,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Launceston?

10,979 sales are on record for Launceston, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Launceston house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +22.3% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -12.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Launceston house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £260,000, set in 2022. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Launceston?

£1,863 per square metre, from the 1,243 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 25 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Launceston house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.